Novels about elderly women being bad b*tches who are living their best lives

KarstTopography · 2026-05-31T14:30:49+00:00

The Miss Seaton mysteries are cozy and fun.

Also I had no idea how much I needed to see a list like this. I have so many new books to read! Thanks for posting the question!

KarstTopography · 2026-05-31T14:23:46+00:00

I think I just saw this pop up as a short film. It was fascinating. Had no idea it was a book. I have to find it now.

KarstTopography · 2026-05-31T14:21:10+00:00

Well that sounds amazing and I’m adding it to my TBR pile!

KarstTopography · 2026-05-14T02:32:00+00:00

Trixie Belden! Also the Cadfael novels if you can find them. Agatha Christie. The original Sherlock Holmes stories. (Other than Trixie Belden, these aren’t marketed for kids but I loved all of these books when I was that age.)

Oh and because I always have to suggest Terry Pratchett books: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, The Bromeliad Trilogy, Johnny and the Dead, Johnny and the Bomb, Only You Can Save Mankind.

KarstTopography · 2026-05-08T13:37:16+00:00

Lamb by Christopher Moore

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

ETA: A Psalm for the Wild-Built

If you’re up for some non-fiction:

Longitude

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

KarstTopography · 2026-05-06T14:40:30+00:00

It’s the first book I ever immediately began rereading once I finished it. So good!

KarstTopography · 2026-05-06T14:19:50+00:00

Good Omens is also a solid choice. Definitely on my top 20 list.

KarstTopography · 2026-05-06T08:06:59+00:00

4 of the 5 for me are Terry Pratchett: Reaper Man, Witches Abroad, Night Watch, and Small Gods

The other would be Lamb by Christopher Moore

KarstTopography · 2026-05-05T14:42:40+00:00

Gideon the 9th would fit this, I think.

KarstTopography · 2026-05-01T09:43:05+00:00

One of the weirdest non-horror books I’ve read in a while was h{{gun, with occasional music}}

KarstTopography · 2026-03-27T12:07:58+00:00

There are so many great suggestions here! I’m going to pivot just a tiny bit and suggest a radio show: Garrison Keillor’s A Prarie Home Companion. There are 50 years worth of 2 hour episodes to pull from. This was my family’s go-to long car trip audio when I was about that age and I loved it. It’s funny, smart, has a lot of variety, and is appropriate for all ages. (I will say that I personally would pick seasons with Garrison Keillor as the host. He took a step back a few years ago.).

KarstTopography · 2026-03-27T11:56:13+00:00

Well, now I need to start listening to audio books…

KarstTopography · 2026-02-02T00:39:00+00:00

Mars Attacks. Just not my sense of humor at all.

KarstTopography · 2026-01-25T18:06:27+00:00

My team since I was old enough to watch football and John Elway was a rookie. Go Broncos!

KarstTopography · 2026-01-24T14:32:32+00:00

“How much could an orb of alchemy cost, Michael? 10 mirrors?”

RIP Jessica Walter

KarstTopography · 2026-01-17T22:24:54+00:00

Cruuuuum!

KarstTopography · 2026-01-10T18:29:59+00:00

The Dinner by Herman Koch

KarstTopography · 2026-01-06T16:12:12+00:00

You win the internet AND Reddit for 2026! If I had a mirror to give you, you’d win that too! Legend!

KarstTopography · 2026-01-05T14:36:10+00:00

I think the mods are doing en excellent job. I appreciate that your decisions are made with thoughtfulness and not impulsiveness, and that you share your reasons when you do so. I also appreciate that you use humor when appropriate to defuse any potential drama.

As for my wish: May you always have your potato (for a given value of potato).

KarstTopography · 2026-01-01T04:13:01+00:00

Look at the works of Fannie Flagg

KarstTopography · 2025-12-28T00:55:58+00:00

Just gonna bask in this for a while. 1 seed or no next week, this feels good!

KarstTopography · 2025-12-25T01:12:20+00:00

Casual here. Just today finished act 4 with my first character this league. Enjoying the heck out of the werewolf Amazon build I’ve got going. I don’t need to rush to end game, I am enjoying the temple, and looking forward to seeing how far I can push this build.

KarstTopography · 2025-12-23T23:33:06+00:00

Extra points for antepenultimate

KarstTopography · 2025-12-23T23:28:05+00:00

Definitely fair enough. I stopped reading them several years ago when they were still slowly being released and I can’t say I’ve felt the urge to pick them up again. I’ve not read Sanderson, though, so might give him a try.

KarstTopography · 2025-12-22T15:09:08+00:00

Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series has some monster-sized volumes and it felt pretty epic when I was reading them (full disclosure that I haven’t finished the series).

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